Past Lives

Past Lives

2023
★★★★★ Liked Watched

girl who has never gotten over anything in her life watches film about relationships, change and what ifs: the results will shock you! (she cried)

Kiki's Delivery Service

Kiki's Delivery Service

1989
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

another week, another ghibli rewatch!
this film is always a comfort but never more so than tonight. after a week of news story after news story talking about male violence against women, reasserting the painful truth that no matter how hard we try we simply aren’t safe, seeing a world where a 13 year old girl can fly off into the unknown to discover herself, without these concerns, is such beautiful escapism. thank you Hayao Miyazaki for your incredible heroins and creation of worlds where we can escape our painful reality, even if just for a couple of hours <3

Before Midnight

Before Midnight

2013
★★ Watched

if a couple i was having dinner with suddenly started role playing in front of me i would simply leave.

Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus

Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus

2005
★★★★½ Rewatched

incredibly real of this film to make the big bad a balding incel with delusions of grandeur 

the more i rewatch old barbie favourites the more i understand where my own feminism began !!

Look Back

Look Back

2024
★★★½ Watched

every time i hear a queer themed piece of media described as beautiful i think that means it’ll be happy and every time i’m wrong 🙃

Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham

2002
★★★★½ Rewatched

i know the whole thing is ‘not all girls who play football are lesbians’ etc etc, but did they consider… it would be better if they were?

Bratz

Bratz

2007
Rewatched

the dictionary entry for unhinged should just be this movie

Your Name Engraved Herein

Your Name Engraved Herein

2020
★★★★ Watched

this film saw my heart beating in my chest, reached in and flipped it a few times, before straight up yanking it clean out it, only to then hand it back to me in a little bouquet of flowers with a post it note saying ‘sorry :)’

melodramatic? undeniably. lacking in structure and narrative coherence? I’ll give you that. derivative, cliched, trying a bit too hard at times? these could all certainly be argued.

but the visuals, the *yearning*, the…

Your Name Engraved Herein

Your Name Engraved Herein

2020
★★★★ Rewatched

me for most of the film: this is beautiful, why has it taken me four years to rewatch it?

me, for the last 30 minutes: *sobbing* oh…